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Bloody Sunday
It was supposed to be a peaceful protest at the czars palace, but then the guards fired on the protesters killing many people. -
russo-Japanese war
It grew out of rival imperial ambitions of the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan over Manchuria and Korea -
Revolution of 1905
a revolution sparked by bloody sunday -
Creation of the Duma
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Russia enters WW1
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March Revolution begins
workers rioted for better working conditions. The police were ordered to stop them and people got killed, then the workers became even more angry -
Kerensky heads the provisional government
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lenin returns from exile in germany
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Nicholas II abdicates the throne
Nicholas II is forced to abdicate the throne, and then a provincial government is installed in his place. -
civil war begins
a civil war between the Bolshevik red army and the white army -
Lenin takes power
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Russia pulls out of WW1
Russia pulles out of world war one beacuse of riots and other problems in their country -
Assassination of Romanov family
The family thought they were being brought to England for safety but really Lenin had ordered them to be executed. The whole family was executed in the basment of a house. -
Trotsky wins Civil war
Trotsky and the Bolsheviks won the civil war -
Stalin comes to power
he ruled by terror and millions died under his brutal reign -
Russia becomes a totalitarian state
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Period: to
great purge
